DRM is self-defeating (was: Encrypt python files)

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>The only feasible solution is to distribute files only to those
>>recipients you want to have them, and can trust to do with them as you
>>ask. If you don't trust a recipient, don't hand the files to them.
>
> Can tools like py2exe or cx_freeze also be used to obfuscate python source code?

But barely. At very worst, you suppress your comments and variable
names, but all your actual functionality is all there still - it has
to be, or it won't run.

ChrisA